Comment: My Drawer system for my 200 series cruiser

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My Drawer system for my 200 series cruiser

After looking around at the various drawer systems available and not being able to find anything that met my requirements, I decided to build my own. It has dual fridge slides, a single drawer,

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Hi Captain,

Makes mine look rather pathetic so over christmas I must have another goat it. A quick question on power. This will be sucking about 16 amp for 2 fridges. Is this correct? Have you changed the 2 origional cruiser standard batteries? Are you running a solar panel for power as well? Thanks for the ideas, Carl

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Reply By: Member - Captain (WA) - Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 00:57

Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 00:57

Hi Carl,

With both fridges running, they only draw about 4 amps peak each so only 8 amps total in peak load, but the average load is lower so only around 5-6Ahr average. I used 60mm2 (9mm copper dia) cable to the rear to minimise voltage loss, but it can also handle a huge amount of amps - well over 200amps but I have fused it at 40 amps.

I have split my twin batteries with a redarc isolator but currently still running the original cruiser batteries. This works fine but do plan to upgrade the batteries when they die. I also have a 100Ahr battery in my camper trailer that I can load share with the cruiser aux battery. So far I haven't needed to use solar as I can keep my batteries powered thru running the cruiser if required.

Cheers

Captain

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